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01.20.08 | Jason Miles Kirk

Photographer Jason Miles Kirk has a clever implementation of SlideShowPro for Flash on his portfolio site. Instead of using the gallery as a collection of albums (with each album containing multiple images), Jason built his gallery so that each "album" is actually only a single image, and then used a thumbnail of that image as the album preview. The result? A grid of images that all appear to be part of the same collection. Jason then took things a step further by turning off SlideShowPro for Flash's embedded navigation (set "Navigation Appearance" to "Hidden"), and added left/right arrow buttons outside of the component that load the next album in sequence when clicked. Last but certainly not least, he uses the onImageRoll() / onImageData() events to display his own external caption that layers over slideshow content when engaged with the mouse. Nice work Jason!